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Even if Paul’s writing are included, 2Tim 3:16 doesn’t say Scripture is all that is needed for doctrine, but only “profitable” for doctrine. That’s right, so when Paul says “… which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ” (2Tim 3:15), what is he referring to? He...

I don't know. What does "good" mean?

So if a believer is tempted to sin, what should he do - give in to the temptation and sin, or fight the temptation and not sin? Wow, it sounds like you don’t even know what “repentance” means! In which case, you need to join the little kiddies in Sunday School and learn the meaning of some very...

What about Romans 4? No doubt you misinterpret it as well. I have no idea what you’re talking about - and I don’t think you do, either. What on earth is “one work” or “2 works”? Sounds like you don’t know what “works” even means. ”James requirement of works”? Huh?

How can a believer possibly be “saved” before he is judged by Christ, which takes place only after death? Think about it - it ain’t rocket science. Any verse what appears to say we are saved before Judgement Day shouldn’t be read literally, but in the sense that a believer on the road to...

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Repentance means more than simply acknowledging that some of your behaviour is wrong and sinful in the eyes of God. The idea is to please God by ceasing to do what is wrong and sinful. It makes no sense to learn that what you are doing is sinful and displeasing to God, but then CONTINUE TO DO...

God's decision, but we know the "good thief" on the cross next to Jesus was saved without baptism. What happens to those millions of pagans who lived before Jesus walked the earth and had never heard of the God of the Bible or His Son and were never baptized? What about the millions of pagans...

How would you know what books belong in the OT if they weren’t in the Bible? The Jews have different versions of what they consider to be the “Sacred Writings”. How would you know which version is correct? It was the Catholic Church that decided what books should be included in the OT. About...

The proof is in the pudding - there are thousands of different churches, sects and denominations because they don’t share the same doctrines.

Salvation … what is the process? There are three simple verses in the Bible that describe the formula for salvation: 1. “those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus” (Rev 12:17, repeated in Rev 14:12). 2. “a man is justified by works and not by faith alone” (James...

Huh? If I don’t believe everyone who says God talks to them, that is “blasphemy”? I don’t think so. Only a naïve fool would believe everyone who says God is talking to them. I wish I had a dollar for every time a psychiatrist had to treat a loon who claimed God talks to him! Did I say...

Start a thread, not a book :)

Catholicism is all about God's love and His gift. The former-Catholic you speak of mustn't have been paying attention or didn't understand what they were being taught - let's face it, it's well known that most Catholics who leave the one, true Church and join the pretender-churches are not the...

I guess you get sick of being told that you're a genius.

What "lies"? It’s obvious by now that you can’t tell me where I find an infallible interpretation of the Bible. That means your faith is based entirely on your fallible interpretation of the Bible, which is useless. You're stumbling around in a fog of uncertainty; I feel sorry for you. Why not?

You’re wrong. All Catholic Churches recognize the Bishop of Rome - ie, the Pope - as their leader. The Pope and his administration are located in Vatican City. So what? There’s no record in the Bible of the Catholic Bishop of Sydney, Australia, having any association with the Church in Rome …...

Jesus spoke Aramaic, and He gave Simon the Aramaic name, Cephas (John 1:42), which means “rock” - it doesn’t mean “little pebble”, as the ignorant contend. How do you explain the fact that if you read a French or Aramaic Bible, the words for “Peter” and “this rock” in Matt 16:18 are exactly the...

Asking him to resort to historical scholarship is expecting waaaaaay too much. Scholarship and blind, witless, fundamentalist bigotry can’t exist in the same mind.